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  • On the post: The Internet Isn't Broken; So Why Is The ITU Trying To 'Fix' It?

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2012 @ 04:19am

    It's a bluff!

    The internet needs saving! Who will we turn to? Help us someone!

    Seems an unlikely savior has come, the RIAA have decided to pitch their lot in against the evil ITU - to keep the internets secure and free!

    Let's give them the power to stop this crazy plan! All they need is for us to transfer the power over out internets to them, and they will be able to block the ITU - once and for all!!

    Hooray, no more ITU! Long live the RIAA!

  • On the post: DOJ Tries To Explain How It Can Get Around Requirement To Serve Megaupload In The US

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 09:40am

    Re:

    Other countries would still have to sign up for it though, just because the US of A decide this is what they want, doesn't hold water with the rest of the world. We still have a lot of people that like our freedom from American prosecution, and that's not likely to change, America can't just decide the internet has to obey it's laws.

  • On the post: Charles Carreon Tries To Intimidate Parodist With Bizarre List Of Demands Plus DMCA Takedown Threat

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2012 @ 05:38am

    Re: The heartless one has a point

    Why shouldn't we "give a fuck" about Inman? He's been providing free (originally created) humour for years now, yeah, that must be it, the internet is srs buisness! Get rid of all that funny junk off the internet, oh, wait... You see what I did there?

    - Not so anonymous troll.

  • On the post: The Oatmeal v. Funnyjunk: How The Court Of Public Opinion Beats The Court Of Baseless Legal Threats

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2012 @ 08:50am

    Why?

    Is it getting to the stage where someone with a good talent, makes a living of selling his cartoons online, has to be an expert in law?

    You're expecting Inmam to follow DMCA processes, when it's clear the opposing party doesn't.

    I completely understand his side of the argument, FJ are using his content, and making money off it, it's as simple as that, he shouldn't have to be an expert in law, FJ hosts a *lot* of content, none of it is original (theirs) it's all user submitted, so they should be making it *very* easy to get stuff removed.

  • On the post: Privacy Is Not Secrecy; Debunking The 'If You've Got Nothing To Hide…' Argument

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 26 May, 2011 @ 04:25am

    Nothing to hide?

    Personally I'd make a dash from the shower to the phone if the curtains are closed, but I'm not the sort to wander about naked for no reason. If I don't want you seeing me naked for no reason, why should I hand over other personal/revealing information for no reason?

  • On the post: How To Create A Survey That Makes A Problem Seem Bigger Than It Is: 'Do You Know Anyone…'

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2011 @ 05:29am

    Overhyped

    Stats are just ridiculous, I mean from http://www.nss.org.uk/about/stalking-facts-figures/, anyone that takes these "facts" at face value is a moron.

    "Over 1.2 million women and 900,000 men are stalked every year according to The British Crime Survey 2004"

    Ok, we're quite a small country, we only have ~66 million people here, so that's really quite a large number!

  • On the post: UK Politician Threatens To Sue Football Team For Infringement If It Moves, But Keeps Its Name

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2011 @ 05:57am

    Re: Re:

    Not quite as bad as that, the NY Yankees could probably build a new stadium in another part of New York without the fuss. Apparently Spurs (or Tottenham Hotspurs as they are known) can't.

    But Liverpool could move anywhere across Liverpool without this trouble, since Tottenham isn't that big a place (it's just a small part of London), it's basically impossible for Spurs to move around inside it if they really wanted.

  • On the post: NBC Universal & MPAA Get NYC To Run Propaganda 'Anti-Piracy' Ad Campaign

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 02:22pm

    I'm just amazed that a company can spout such ridiculous misinformation, and (a) get away with it, and (b) get politicians to listen to it.

    Over here in the UK we have lots of regulators, every time one of the broadband suppliers starts making absurd claims, all the others go to Ofcom and make complaints so they don't look so bad.

    Personally if I voted for any of the chimps that are listening to this, I'd be complaining to them first, and not voting for them next time round.

  • On the post: Apple Trash Talking Spotify As It Prepares Its Competitor

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2010 @ 04:45am

    Since when were Apple an independant source for good advice? Apple advises music industry to wait till it has it's own offering (and can therefore cream more cash from fanbois), nothing new about that.

  • On the post: Guy Who Runs Anti-Ryanair Website Forced To Hand Over The Domain Because He Made A Little Money

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2010 @ 05:32am

    .com?

    Surely it would be "nominetsucks.com" or they could just take it down on their own.

  • On the post: Big Casinos May Now Regret That They Had Congress Ban Internet Gambling

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2010 @ 04:33am

    Ha

    So they bought themselves time to catch up with the times, and stopped any competition getting a good foot in the American market door. Sounds like a good plan (for them) to me.

  • On the post: Bill Gates Finally Hands Over World's Richest Man Crown

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2007 @ 03:59am

    its also very interesting to read the comments above, while some are interesting others seem to jump to the defence of "we are still bigger/better", i think anyone can spot the american posters with ease.

    it seems to me that the average (and i dont mean everyone!) american has a hard time accepting they are not the world, the ignorance of some people really astounds me, accept that america does not own everything, look round your house and see all those japanese items like your TV/DVD player? read underneath about 1/2 your household appliances and you will see "made in china/taiwan", you guys send billions abroad every year which will hurt your economy and you wonder why its struggling? sure it makes the rich exec's get million dollar bonuses as they have saves the company money, but in the long term your draining money from your own country

    side note: its interesting to have an article on here thats not just another IP rant that means little to nothing to us non us readers, get back to the good old days!

  • On the post: Techdirt Will Pay Up To $1 Million For Proof Of BSA Million Dollar Pay Out

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2007 @ 08:09am

    Clause 15 is just great ...

    "BSA reserves its right to deny the payment of a Reward or to revoke the Reward Program at any time and without notice and for any reason."

    wow, what a getout! how about "meh, we dont feel like it today" as a reason?

  • On the post: MPAA Math: 40% Plus 70% Equals?

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 10 May, 2007 @ 05:27am

    Re:

    Quantum maths?

  • On the post: IM Want You For U.S. Army

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2006 @ 06:51am

    absurd

    its absurd that this article linked another dated 2002 ... of course its a crazy idea, but in 2002 patenting an IM bot was a *little* more feasible (although still slightly stupid)

  • On the post: People Like Their iPods On The Toilet (But Not In The Toilet)

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2006 @ 07:09am

    Gameboy

    personally i'm a gameboy fan myself, can't beat a 20 minute stint of tetris on the loo, then you need another 5 to lie down till the pins 'n needles stop.

  • On the post: Analyst Firms Fight Over Patents On How They Collect Data

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2006 @ 07:01am

    Stupid patent arguments

    sounds like another stupid lawsuit

    "We are strong proponents of mobile device metering as a next-generation research tool" - he forgot to add "but if only done by us" to that statement...

  • On the post: Once Again, Company With Obvious Bias Warns Of The Horrors Of Personal Surfing

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2006 @ 04:36am

    Re: BRIILANT..

    I wonder if i should be reading this from work? What the hell I only have 5 more days of my notice to work!

  • On the post: Sounds More Like The Million Dollar Headache

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2006 @ 09:32pm

    Re: Million Dollar Path -

    God damn these "million dollar homepage" spawns (and no i'm not even going to look at this one). I work for a web hosting company and if I have seen one in the last week I have seen 10...

    Also to the trumped up dude (cant be bothered to look up the post), this is a techie news site, so you are expected to be a techie to read/understand what its on about, further we techie people expect spelling and grammar checkers to go over everything we type, as this does not happen when we click submit it confuses us, and we cant go back and edit our comments anyway.

    LOOK AT IT THIS WAY THOUGH. AT LEAST WE DONT TYPE IN ALL UPPERCASE LIKE YOUR AVERAGE AOL USER. LOL.

  • On the post: Why Google's Copy Protection Raises Privacy Issues

    Daniel Morritt ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2006 @ 09:12pm

    Re: If Google really cared

    How many people have a store card? I mean c'mon, people whinge about google's policy, what about the personalised offers you get from tesco on products you purchase regularly (or are similar to)?

    Every time you swipe your tesco store card they know where you live, what you bought, when was the last time you bought it, but who cares enough to complain? Nobody. If you don't like this you dont hand over your card at the till. People who are really that concerned about this kind of thing need to start taking responsability for their own online actions.

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